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Ghost Whisperer Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Firestarter
Fri, Oct 3, 200851 mins
Melinda's anger with Rick Payne is sidetracked when she meets another instructor who has her abilities, but reaching his ghost to cross her over may put Melinda's life in jeopardy.
Episode 2
Big Chills
Fri, Oct 10, 200860 mins
Melinda faces bad memories from high school when one of her classmates is found dead, and Eli takes the opportunity for some on-the-job training when she investigates why a ghost won't cross over.
Episode 3
Ghost in the Machine
Fri, Oct 17, 200860 mins
A ghost who's managed to recreate himself in a gaming world threatens Melinda when she tries to determine who he is, and when a young girl is threatened by an online predator in the same game, she and Eli find themselves in a race to find her before the unthinkable occurs.
Episode 4
Save Our Souls
Fri, Oct 24, 200860 mins
Jim and Melinda board a grand cruise ship's last voyage as a romantic anniversary holiday. She finds it full of ghosts, including a murderous one who seems to have committed suicide. However it constantly attacks the wrong victim, and actually for the wrong reason, so the true tragedy implying her death must be worked out, then a reconciliation achieved.
Episode 5
Bloodline
Fri, Oct 31, 200860 mins
A teenage girl dies suddenly, and her ghost begins acting rather strangely.
Episode 6
Imaginary Friends and Enemies
Fri, Nov 7, 200860 mins
When Jim and Melinda are invited to an old friend's wedding, Melinda meets the bride's daughter's not so imaginary friend.
Episode 7
Threshold
Fri, Nov 14, 200860 mins
Jim's brother Dan Clancy waits for him to pass into the light together, as their dad demanded. Yet Jim can't just leave Melinda, even after hearing her hope he will do. Her medium-gift is suspended by the intense mourning grief, it starts returning after an atypical funeral to the lovebirds' taste. Eli James grudgingly fills in when another ghost furiously attacks their home, raging over a sick man.
Episode 8
Heart & Soul
Fri, Nov 21, 200844 mins
Melinda tries to reach Jim while dealing with Sam's family and a ghost determined to punish her.
Episode 9
Pieces of You
Fri, Dec 5, 200843 mins
Melinda has to put her worries over Sam aside when a young girl's ghost appears at his job site, a ghost whose anger may endanger her surviving family and Sam.
Episode 10
Ball & Chain
Fri, Dec 19, 200844 mins
Jim/Sam doubts his future, reconsidering whether to give his engagement ring to the beloved he can't remember. Eli helps Melinda work out why ghost Tammy, who doesn't even realize she's dead, is stuck in a loop around husband Roger Gardner. It turns out she has another loving husband, Thomas, and two boys, who believe she left them years ago, but that's not quite what happened.
Episode 11
Life on the Line
Fri, Jan 9, 200944 mins
Delia's newest house listing turns out to be haunted, and Melinda must figure out a lie before a second family tragedy occurs. Meanwhile, Sam's memory flashes begin to seem like Jim's, but that may not be enough to keep him with Melinda.
Episode 12
This Joint's Haunted
Fri, Jan 16, 200944 mins
Jim 'Sam' feels increasingly uneasy about his engagement to Nicole and decides to visit her in Raleigh, but also asks Melinda along, feeling most comfortable with her, while more of his memory returns. Ned volunteers as house-sitter. Overprotective Delia, who receives high-school friends, rages at Ned for getting mixed up in parties due to schoolmates and the local ghost Angie, a teenage friend of Delia, who died after visiting a party forbidden by her parents, but the tables are turned on Delia.
Episode 13
Body of Water
Fri, Jan 23, 200944 mins
Melinda lets "Sam's" fiancée Nicole stay with them for a week, so they can work out if they still have a future together. Eli James calls a marker to let Melinda work on the ghosts found in a lake by students during a nightly swim. Their motivation to stay on earth and resent any exposure proves a confusing cluster of guilt and care.
Episode 14
Slow Burn
Fri, Feb 6, 200944 mins
Trough Ned's schoolmate Kristy Marks, Melinda meets her mother Deborah's ghost, who refuses to explain why she's viciously protective of reputed bad boy Tim Dwight, one of her legal pro bono charges, whom widower Douglas Marks calls incorrigible and a dangerous friend for Kristy. It turns out he plays a significant part in both parents' past. Jim 'Sam' is getting really tired of ghost taking precedence over dating him.
Episode 15
Greek Tragedy
Fri, Feb 13, 200944 mins
Just now Melinda wants to concentrate on winning Jim 'Sam' back, Eli can't handle the mystery of Rebecca Kelly's ghost, which is obsessed with her former sorority's harsh hazing. The ghost seems bent on seeing a pledge die, but her past rather suggests motives to oppose the harm done by hazers.
Episode 16
Ghost Busted
Fri, Feb 27, 200944 mins
The appearance of a paranormal investigator at a neighbor's house draws Melinda and Eli into investigating the mysterious disappearance of the house's previous owner. And disrupts Melinda's plans to reveal her gift to Sam.
Episode 17
Delusions of Grandview
Fri, Mar 6, 200944 mins
Sam gets a little more than he bargained for when he spends time with Melinda so he can get used to her world, and they run into a ghost who is influencing the children of a nursery school.
Episode 18
Leap of Faith
Fri, Mar 13, 200944 mins
Dr Byrd has a challenge for Melinda.
Episode 19
Thrilled to Death
Fri, Apr 10, 200944 mins
Melinda and Eli try to help a young woman being haunted by an angry ghost, but her refusal to tell the truth may endanger her life. Meanwhile, Jim realizes the complications of picking up his life again.
Episode 20
Stage Fright
Fri, Apr 24, 200944 mins
A ghost is causing troubles at a shoot for a soap opera, unfortunately for Melinda that shoot is occurring in her store.
Episode 21
Cursed
Fri, May 1, 200943 mins
When Lucy Stanton comes looking for a doll fitting the replica of her home made as doll-house, Melinda learns that her pre-teen daughter Drew hears voices in it and notices self-arrangement at night. It's the ghosts of her family, who perished from accidental asphyxiation there, and suspect her aunt Emma Silber of murderous methods to get their considerable inheritance. Eli enjoys meeting fellow occult scholar Zoe Ramos, who explains about the voodo.
Episode 22
Endless Love
Fri, May 8, 200944 mins
Teenager Karen Westen is enchanted by same age ghost Andrew Carlin, who caters to their romantic vampire fantasies, which may drag her into his ghost world. Melinda initially suspects a dark part played by her adulterous father, who proves genuinely protective, before considering true love.
Episode 23
The Book of Changes
Fri, May 15, 200944 mins
Even scarier then the domineering wedding planner is Melinda's nightmare about a faceless girl carrying a book and spelling doom, presumably for her unborn child. Shortly after, Eli's friend and colleague Zoe Ramos is murdered at her home and henchman Gordon Bradey breaks into the campus library, but steals nothing. Zoe was curator of occult books up for sale and her prospected buyer Jeremy Bishop is caught by Eli breaking into her home. A watcher warns Melinda about the book, in which death dates are magically written.
